A couple of days ago I got a meds delivery, accompanied by – these days – a not unusual terse note from the prescribing GP (who is becoming a total pain in the butt, frankly). I’d love to go down there and dish out the bollocking he deserves, and I’m sure that’s what he’s hoping for, as he can then dump an expensive patient for “verbal violence”.
Among the meds I’d asked for was codeine linctus, and it was the one which generated the snotty note which said:-
“I’m not happy to give MORE strong opiates alongside high-dose morphine AND Tramadol.”
This struck me as perverse, not least because Continue reading